One of our crew members nominated this linguist as a Ring Master of the Day because she has been inspired by his work in sociolinguistics and dialects. Today we are featuring this renowned linguist who has:

1. Written many books including: The Social Differentiation of English in Norwich, Language Myths, The Handbook of Language Variation and Change, Sociolinguistics: An Introduction, Dialectology, Language in the British Isles, Accent, Dialect and the School

2. Studied modern languages at King's College, Cambridge

3. Received a PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 1971

4. Did linguistic fieldwork in Britain, Greece and Norway

5. Is the honorary president of the Friends of Norfolk dialect society